Edgar Wright Quotes
When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.
Quotes to Explore
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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I'm at a point where there isn't any wasted movement in the throwing motion. Everything is consistent and smooth. When I first got into the league, I held the ball really high. That was the standard in college, and it messed up my timing a little bit - the draw, bringing it back, then the release.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics . . . dare to reprove this work, because of some passage of Scripture, which they have miserably warped to their purpose, I regard them not, and even despise their rash judgement.
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When we made 'Shaun of the Dead,' it was our first feature, and we were just lucky to make a film, full stop.
